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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 384 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUAKERTOWN COMMUNITY SD·NCES 421989001122
Neidig Elementary School
201 Penrose St, Quakertown, PA 18951 · (215) 529-2360 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 20% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
241 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Quakertown Community SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
39.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.8pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +14.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.7% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.5% | 28.4% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Neidig Elementary School
Neidig Elementary School's state test result (42.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neidig Elementary School this school | 470 | 51.3% | 42.3% |
| Dingman-Delaware Elementary School Dingmans Ferry | 470 | 56.2% | 60.8% |
| Plainfield Elementary School Nazareth | 434 | 53.0% | 58.5% |
| Highland Elementary School Ephrata | 438 | 54.8% | 67.3% |
| Manor Elementary School Levittown | 434 | 50.2% | 57.6% |
| Donegal Primary School Mount Joy | 559 | 49.0% | N/A |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Neidig Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #1,032 of 1,396 | #64 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #948 of 1,511 ▲ 204 | #62 of 72 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #1,026 of 1,511 ▲ 75 | #63 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #621 of 1,638 | #38 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #698 of 1,528 | #35 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #676 of 1,531 | #35 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.3% | #976 of 1,600 | #19 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.2% | #118 of 450 | #3 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
470
+94 (+25%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 400
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 470 | 36.7 | 12.8:1 | 51% (241) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 34 | 14.5:1 | 49% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 505 | 33 | 15.3:1 | 47% (237) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 27 | 13.9:1 | 35% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 26.5 | 15.1:1 | 32% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 386 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 38% (148) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 21 | 17.2:1 | 26% (95) |
| 2000-01 | 404 | 20 | 20.2:1 | 17% (70) |
| 1990-91 | 400 | 20 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neidig Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (401 to 470); teachers up 38% (26.5 to 36.7).
About Neidig Elementary School
Neidig Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 470 students in kindergarten through 5.
Quakertown Community SD enrolls 4,558 students, and its 8 schools include Neidig Elementary School.
More than half of enrollment at Neidig Elementary School is White: 72%. The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 44%.
The school had 36.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. The school reported 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Bucks County is 40%.
Neidig Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 20% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Neidig Elementary School is -13.3 points: 42.3% actual, 55.6% predicted.
Bucks County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $114,764, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Bucks County's 123 public schools enroll about 81,956 students and include Neidig Elementary School.
About 0.7 miles separate Neidig Elementary School from the closest public school, Richland Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Neidig Elementary School ranks 7th of 9 nearby schools, at 42.3% versus a 52.2% average.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Neidig Elementary School enrolled 376 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 470. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.9:1 to 12.8:1.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Quakertown Community SD
- Quakertown Community High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Strayer Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Pfaff Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Trumbauersville Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- 6th Grade CenterMiddle · 331 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 327 students
Other schools in Quakertown
- Quakertown Community High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Strayer Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Pfaff Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Trumbauersville Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- 6th Grade CenterMiddle · 331 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 327 students
Other Neidig Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Neidig Elementary. Neidig Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Neidig Elementary SchoolELGIN, TX · 528 students
Nearby schools
- Richland Elementary School0.7 mi · 327
- Quakertown Elementary School0.9 mi · 265
- Quakertown Community High School1.0 mi · 1,570
- Strayer Middle School1.0 mi · 737
- 6th Grade Center1.2 mi · 331
- Trumbauersville Elementary School3.1 mi · 376
Frequently asked questions
About Neidig Elementary SchoolHow large is Neidig Elementary School?
Neidig Elementary School enrolls approximately 470 students in grades KG-05.
Is Neidig Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Neidig Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Neidig Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Neidig Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Neidig Elementary School?
At Neidig Elementary School, the student body is approximately 72% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Neidig Elementary School public or private?
Neidig Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Quakertown Community SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.